Healthy Eating

Host Jamie Sanders and Victoria Grieve, USU Associate Professor of History, explore the 1971 influential cookbook "Diet for a Small Planet" by Frances Moore Lappe. A copy is held in USU's Merrill Cazier Library Special Collections and Archives.

This week host Tammy Proctor talks about how to turn much-loved food traditions into vegan or vegetarian friendly offerings.

This season of Eating the Past is devoted to all things vegetarian. All of the episodes have made host Jamie Sanders ask "why am I not a vegetarian!"

Host Tammy Proctor revisits USU's historic cookbooks in the Merril-Cazier Library Special Collections, the earthy-crunchy 1970's cookbook, "The Farm Vegetarian Cookbook.

This week host Tammy Proctor talks about the star of the vegetarian world, beans. Fellow bean lovers Todd Shirley and Rob and Leslie Keeney join in on the conversation.

Tammy Proctor continues the vegetarian theme focusing on summer foods for the trail. This week we hear about the history of hardtack and how to best consume it!

This week continues the exploration of famous vegetarians and historic vegetarian cookbooks. Jamie Sanders and author Marcus Rediker explore the life of Benjamin Lay.

This week host Laura Gelfand continues to explore plant based eating with Logan, Utah chef Barney Northrup.

On this week's episode Laura Gelfand explores the punk side of plant based eating by looking at two cookbooks in her own collection.

March is National Nutrition Month. The theme, “Beyond the Table,” provides a great opportunity to reflect on your eating habits. Consider incorporating one or more of these ideas into your daily eating routine.